Clera

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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4 hours ago
Berlin, GermanyMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Own applied AI automation use cases from enterprise customer discovery through production deployment.
  • Translate ambiguous customer problems into scoped, buildable solutions and ship them quickly.
  • Build LLM, agentic workflow, vision model, and embedding-based solutions.
  • Design and implement data pipelines for document ingestion, extraction, validation, and orchestration.
  • Identify recurring patterns and codify them into reusable templates.
  • Balance speed, accuracy, and pragmatism while keeping humans in the loop where appropriate.
  • Travel to customer sites and work directly with German enterprise stakeholders.
  • Help shape the technical direction of the product and company as a founding-team engineer.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of experience as a software engineer or data scientist building production systems.
  • Hands-on experience deploying applied AI solutions involving LLMs, agentic workflows, vision models, and embeddings in production.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals from a degree or clearly equivalent formal grounding.
  • Full-stack capability with backend API development in Node.js/TypeScript or Python and frontend development in TypeScript/React or similar.
  • Experience designing data pipelines for document processing, extraction, and validation workflows.
  • Experience working with unstructured data, vector databases, and semantic search.
  • Experience integrating multiple LLM providers such as OpenAI, Azure, Gemini, or Cohere, plus solid prompt engineering skills.
  • B2B experience, ideally in a customer-facing technical role with direct enterprise engagement.
  • Experience in an early-stage startup or founding-team environment.
  • C1-level German proficiency or above.
  • Familiarity with domain ontologies, knowledge graphs, or construction industry workflows is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of 72,000 to 100,000 EUR.
  • On-site work in Berlin, Germany, five days per week.
  • Occasional travel to customer sites across the region.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

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